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Monthly Archives: November 2012
In praise of slow
My mornings used to be rushed. Or at least they felt that way. I’d get up and get dressed in order to go out, get my coffee and come back – during which time the kids would wake up. By … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Writing
Tagged daily habit, family, learning, life learning, nespresso, new opening, novel, rush, slow down, Starbucks, to do, writing
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Black Friday
Earlier this week Maya and her friend Greta announced that they really wanted to go somewhere for Black Friday shopping. To be more specific, they wanted me to drive them somewhere for Black Friday shopping, our local stores not … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Parenting, holidays
Tagged Arlo Guthrie, black friday, Carnegie Hall, ds game, family, jersey city, newport centre mall, parenting, Pete Seeger, wii games
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A change of habit
Sometimes it pays to hit the ‘reset’ button. The two weeks we spent in Europe recently was the first time I’ve taken an extended break from blogging since I began over two years ago. It was a little scary because … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Family, Life Learning, Unschooling, Writing, blogging
Tagged agents, blogging, learning, life learning, nespresso machine, Starbucks, unfinished manuscripts, unschoolingnyc.com, writing habit
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Stuff that makes me happy… (can you guess?)
If you’re guessing this is going to be a post about the wonders of family or learning outside of school, you are so wrong. Yes, those things are great. Yes, they make me happy. But I’m here to talk movies … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Writing, blogging, books
Tagged a casual vacancy, accelerated, angelology, anne hathaway, argo, beautiful redemption, ben affleck, books, bronwen hruska, charlie boorman, days of blood & starlight, ewan mcgregor, j.k. rowling, Jane Eyre, judi dench, laini taylor, les miserables, lincoln, london, long way round, louder than words, mia wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, morning glory alwin küchler, motorcycles, movies, New York, oliver pötsch, photobiker.com, skyfall, the intouchables, the page turner, unschooling
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A word about dryers
This afternoon I did laundry. Laundry is not something I generally spend a lot of time talking about (or any time), but it reminded me of one other thing about traveling in Europe. Dryers are in short supply. In theory … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Travel
Tagged button down shirts, dryers, England, extractors, fairy tale, germany, high humidity, ice maker, ironing, life learning, shower, sun dried clothing, travel, wrinkled
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Europe is great! There’s just one thing….
Ahh Europe! I love the cultures, the languages, the BREAD! In Germany they have my favorite radio station on the planet (HR3, in case you’re wondering, which stands for “Hessische Rundfunk 3″) and I get to speak my second favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, Travel
Tagged austria, bread, cappucino, coffee, europe, germany, hr3, italy, life learning, radio, showers, unschooling, water pressure
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